Quotes About Cynicism

There has never in human history been a culture where optimism and cynicism existed side by side on such a scale as this, not even ancient Rome.

Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." —JAMES THURBER

when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.

Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.

When we try to understand something, more often than not, we kill it, and now I can feel the dangers of this encroaching on me: cynicism, bitterness, and infinite sadness...It's impossible to live if you're too aware, too thoughtful. Take nature for example: everything that lives happily and too a ripe old age is not very intelligent. Tortoises live for centuries, water's immortal, and Milton Friedman's still alive.

The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

My mother would mock me. God is merely a weakness for people who need to believe.

By contrast, everyone can have a good life according to the Cynics, but few of us are inclined to spend it living in a tub and defecating in the streets.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.

In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me will always seem more important than a pork rind. There is the risk here of confusing realism with cynicism, moral stoicism with moral sloth, of letting oneself become jaded and lazy and self-satisfied--what used to be called an 'appetitive' person.

Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity.

Like the world had met her low expectations.

If it seems too good to be true... it probably is.

Não é que eu não tenha fé na humanidade. Deixei foi de acreditar nos homens.

Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

You'd meet an optimism that no violence could unconvince, or a cynicism that would eat itself empty every day and then turn, hungry and malignant, on whatever it could for a bite, friendly or hostile, it didn't matter.